Mop-wringer.



PATENTED APR. 30, 1907.

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MOP WRINGBR. urmonxol mum IEB. 1a. 100:.

WILLIAM WHITNEY TODD, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

MOP-WRINGER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented April 30, 1907.

Application filed Febraary 16, 1903. Serial No. 143,744.

1'0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, IVILLIAn \VInTNEY Tom), a subject of His Majesty the King of Great Britain, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Mop-ringers, of which the following is a.

specification.

My lnvention relates to certau1,11npr0ved details of construction of an apparatus for wringin mops, which will be first described with rei erence to the accompanying drawlugs and specifically pointed out in the claim.

The drawing is a View in perspective of my said improved device.

The base of my said new mop-wrlnger is i made of bar-steel bent sidewise so as to form an end piece n bent at the corners a to form :he sides b wlnch are then bent edgewlse at s 30 form arms 0 which overhang the base b so ;hat the relatir e directions of the parts 12 c iorm an acute angle between them, substan- ;ially as shown. Between the free ends of the sides and arms are shorter and the angle between the sides and arms loss acute, but the parts are wide enough apart to pass over the outside of the arms 0 it being formed of the straight end-piece z: from which the parallel sldes e pro ec-t and on the latter, bent edgewise at f, are the arms t which carry a.

wringer-roller 0 in their outer ends, which is provided with a crank 71-. Said second'element is pivoted at its bend f to the arms 0, at (7, on pins 1 u on which it vibrates, and the rollers 1' 0 are 'ept apartby means of a suitable spring 11;. \Vhen the cross-bar k is depressed the rellers 0 1 arebrought into contact and they are separated by the action of the sprin a:.

'hat fclaim is:

The combination with a three-sided base provided with upturned arms setat an acute angle to the base, and a roller in the ends of said arms, of avibratable element pivoted to the arms of said base consisting of an endpiece and side-pieces bent edgewise into upturned arms provided with a. roller, and means to o crate said roller.

W ILLIAM \VIIITNEY TODD.

'itnesses:

HERBERT THOMAS SNELL, GUY L. IRWIN. 

